Definitions of genealogy on the Web: Successive generations of kin; An account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms; Study of one's ancestry, summary history or table of a person's ancestry;
A history or account of one's ancestry, tracing back through generations of relatives; Study or account of descent from ancestors; Study of the origins and descent of families; A written history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor